1355. THE SINKING OF THE LUSITANIA Scarce reporting on the tragic sinking of the liner Lusitania, as printed in The Minneapolis Journal, May 7, 1915, 32pp. folio. The paper's headline exclaims: "LINER LUSITANIA TORPEDOED AND SUNK OFF IRISH COAST WITH MANY AMERICANS ON BOARD; PASSENGERS REPORTED SAFE...NEWS OF DESTRUCTION AROUSE WASHINGTON...LUSITANIA WARNED BEFORE IT SAILED IT WOULD BE SUNK". The front page also bears an artist's conceptual drawing of the doomed vessel with the caption that tourists: "braved the passage in spite of German warning". The story opens: "A message to the Cunard Line says:' The Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk at 2:33 P.M. off Kinsale. There is now word of her passengers and crew, which number over 1,900'...". An unsubstantiated report from London blames not a torpedo but an "infernal machine", with other reports reading: "...Sinking of the Lusitania was the hardest blow of the war to date so far as neutral commerce was concerned...The first to pick her up was the wireless station at Landsend...'We have a big list; rush help' flashed through the air...orders were sent to the nearest point to get every available craft to the scene...There had been grave doubt that the Germans were in earnest when they threatened to attack the passenger-carrying liners..." The front page also bears a list of some of the names of the first class passengers on the vessel. Margins a bit browned and brittle as one would expect, otherwise in excellent condition. $250-350